The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Kitfox]

I'm a bit concerned he appears to have loaded his shells the wrong way round, just as well he's got the kneepad really!

[Captain Blood]

In today’s Times (Paywall, sorry, but you can read the first para... )

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/games-workshop-marches-on-with-shares-up-15-rdb25njgd

In summary, at £1.7 billion, GW now has a bigger market capitalisation (The total value of shares in the company) than major UK high street brands like Sports Direct and Dixons Carphone Warehouse.
Their stock price has risen by 700% in the last three years
The word ‘bubble’ springs to mind, but whatever it is they’re doing, the market and analysts clearly believe they’re going to keep making vast profits for the rest of time...

First half sales of £140M, and pre tax profits of £55M.

Someone somewhere sure is buying a shitload of their product...

Got a spare 50 quid? Forget buying a model, buy one share in Games Workshop Inc. instead

[Andrew_McGuire]

Got a spare 50 quid? Forget buying a model, buy one share in Games Workshop Inc. instead

The word 'spare' is unknown to me, at least when paired with 'quid' or '£', but I would in any case be loath to acquire something, however potentially profitable,  that would inevitably be adorned with unnecessary adornments such as skulls / z, chains and spikes.

[Captain Blood]

Fair point.

I wonder if they have skullz on their share certificates? I mean they put them on everything else

[TWD]

Mine has an imperial Eagle on it.

[Andrew_McGuire]

Fair point.

I wonder if they have skullz on their share certificates? I mean they put them on everything else

I was actually thinking they'd not only be part of the print design, but somehow physically present for the full Grimdark^TM effect. We know they've got  the moulding technology for it, and their chemists, having presumably completed their paint brewing duties for the time being, may well be assigned to impregnating the certificates with Nurgle^TM rot. (Or something. I actually have little idea of the GW mythos or its official terminology. Apologies to everyone for my undoubted errors, any unintended misrepresentation of Games Workshop  PLC and its intellectual properties, etc.)

[Shahbahraz]

I was actually thinking they'd not only be part of the print design, but somehow physically present for the full Grimdark ^TM effect. We know they've got  the moulding technology for it, and their chemists, having presumably completed their paint brewing duties for the time being, may well be assigned to infusing the certificates with nurgle rot. (Or something. I actually have little idea of the GW mythos or its official terminology. Apologies to everyone for my undoubted errors, any unintended misrepresentation of Games Workshop  PLC and its intellectual properties, etc.)

You know they have form for sending the boys around don't you? ;-) 

(Though Nottingham 'hard-men' tend to lose cred when you hear the accent.. it's like being threatened with a cream bun by someone in a crumpet shop in Devon.)

[Andrew_McGuire]

Well, I'm from Leicester. Do I need to say more?

[JamesValentine]

Those poor Aussies.
Having to pay £263 for the £175 necro-rip off-munda box.

[von Lucky]

Wait to you see what the New Zealanders have to pay...

[beefcake]

Lol. I'm a kiwi and was just going to say. 286 pounds... I wouldn't pay NZ$286! I'd probably only pay about $100 for that.

[mcfonz]

It's an expensive set. A rough totting up of costs of stuff seems to bring it out to be about right going by their prices.

Not a rip off. Well, not unless you think GW's prices are generally a rip off. They are one of the most expensive on the market, but then there isn't anyone quite as big or high street present as them either.

[Gibby]

Tis a heftily priced set there. Still, I'm sure it'll do well in its market. For myself, I'd be more tempted to get stuck into my vast array of old Necromunda PDFs and look at alternative mini/terrain ranges were I to get into the game. Ultimately, it's all down to what you want and how much you're prepared to pay. Given the news around GW shares, they're clearly drawing in more than they're turning away!

[beefcake]

2 weeks of groceries for a family of five, or 26 miniatures and some terrain, cards and book. Just trying to put some perspective on the relative pricing there.

[tin shed gamer]

I have to agree .When prices start looking more like phone numbers . I'd rather spend the money on real life.

TWD.
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure DDAY put paid to those.